HotAir Daily Express 05/23/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [The Secret U.S. Government Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Unsuspecting Americans to be Hit Hard by this U.S. Confiscation Scheme]( The 20-year head of the U.S. Fed has revealed Washington's nasty trick to confiscate the savings of unsuspecting Americans... Are you one of them? ==> [Here's the ONE THING Greenspan Says Can Protect Your Savings]( [Negative partisanship at its dumbest: It’s Stormy Daniels Day in West Hollywood]( 5/23/2018 11:21:23 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments The worst part of this will be the strained attempts to dress it up as something nobler than celebrating someone just because they’ve managed to make life difficult for a politician the locals hate. She slept with Trump knowing he was married; [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [ISIS is on Google Plus. Wait… Google Plus is still a thing?]( 5/23/2018 10:41:51 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Listening to the news out of Iraq and Syria these days, you’d be tempted to think that ISIS was pretty much a thing of the past. Their caliphate has been shattered and the few places where they still hold any territory are marginal at best. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. Cardiologist Says Carbs Are Not The Problem (This Is)]( Gundry MD SPONSORED Dr. Gundry reveals the #1 toxic vegetable you should never eat. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Failure to launch? Judge orders 30-year-old man out of parents’ house]( 5/23/2018 10:01:35 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Patron saint for his age, the most overgrown crybaby, or both? Michael Rotondo has captured the nation’s imagination — and not in a good way — he went to court to stop his parents from evicting him. The Rotondos have asked their [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MD Governor race: Even Democrats admit Democrats are the problem]( 5/23/2018 9:21:16 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Governor Larry Hogan is up for reelection this year in Maryland and there’s a crowded field of Democratic hopefuls looking to replace him. There are nine challengers on the ballot and eight of them showed up for the first televised debate of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bank Accounts to be Crushed by this New Hidden Tax](  [Bank Accounts to be Crushed by this New "Hidden Tax"]( [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings](  [Alan Greenspan Warns of this U.S. Scheme to Confiscate Your Savings]( [Move Your IRA or 401k to Gold](  [The Little-Known (But Legal) IRS Tax Law to Move Your IRA or 401(k) to Gold]( [Seattle moves from soaking the rich to … soaking everyone else]( 5/23/2018 8:41:29 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments As our friend Hugh Hewitt wonders, it’s tough to see why anyone does business in Seattle these days. Fresh off its imposition of a “head tax” on its most successful businesses, the city council has now begun an effort to raise the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Feds flip Cohen partner the “Taxi King”]( 5/23/2018 8:01:26 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The media is in a tizzy this morning after news leaked out that the feds have cut a deal with one of Michael Cohen’s buddies. This time it’s Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, better known in the Big Apple as “the Taxi [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Lesley Stahl: Trump told me he attacks the media so that people won’t believe us when we report bad news about him]( 5/22/2018 10:41:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I mean, obviously. A scandalized shiver runs through the room in the clip after Stahl says this but nothing about Trump is as transparent as his strategic goal in gaslighting people about “fake news.” Here’s something I’ve [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The sadly obligatory “Is that Brandi Chastain or Gary Busey?” post]( 5/22/2018 10:01:30 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate. In the annals of grotesque statuary misfires, I’d rank this as slightly worse than genetic-mutation Cristiano Ronaldo and slightly better than psychotic Lucille Ball. Although there’s a case to be made that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [More scenes from the decline of Evergreen State College]( 5/22/2018 9:21:14 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last week I wrote about Evergreen State College’s decline in enrollment which is expected to blow a $5.9 million hole in the schools budget for the coming year. A memo outlining the school’s response said some vacancies would remain [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Shouldn’t Publix be forced to bake the Latin cake?]( 5/22/2018 8:41:54 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Palette cleansers don’t usually come this sweet … if we’re still permitted to use that phraseology. A family celebrating the graduation of their son with high honors had ordered a cake made from the local Publix supermarket, using [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Pence: North Korea will get the “Libyan model” if Kim Jong Un doesn’t make a deal]( 5/22/2018 8:01:44 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via the IJR. In reality, there is no “Libyan model” for North Korea no matter if you define the way John Bolton does or the way Trump and Pence do. When Trump and Pence say “Libyan model,” they mean the 2011 multinational [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Laurence Tribe on impeachment: ‘You have to shoot to kill’]( 5/22/2018 7:21:28 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe has been an online figure in the anti-Trump resistance. He and one of his former students just published a book titled “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.” Tribe’s basic view is that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Family that took in Parkland shooter being sued]( 5/22/2018 6:41:32 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I found this story particularly disturbing for some reason. James and Kimberly Snead are the couple who allowed the killer in the Parkland school shooting to move into their home after his mother passed away, roughly ten weeks before the attack. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Michael Avenatti’s other law firm slapped with $10 million judgment in bankruptcy court]( 5/22/2018 6:01:32 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments First his coffee company goes sideways, now this. The way this guy manages money, he’s a lock to be in Congress someday. Which reminds me: Between his total ubiquity on television, his blustery threats to sue media outlets over unflattering [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reuters tracking poll: GOP now in the lead in our congressional ballot tracking poll]( 5/22/2018 5:31:11 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments For the first time in at least two years, a major pollster has Democrats trailing in the midterms — at least for a day. When last we looked at the Reuters tracking poll, Democrats’ lead in the generic congressional ballot question had [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rep. Swalwell to Tucker Carlson: It’s only gun confiscation ‘if they’re caught with them’]( 5/22/2018 5:01:57 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Earlier this month, Rep. Eric Swalwell wrote a piece for USA Today in which he called for a national ban on AR-15 style rifles followed by a “buy back” program targeting current owners. Reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The sanctuary cities strike back]( 5/22/2018 4:31:40 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments In the face of a lawsuit from the federal government and a growing revolt by some cities and counties, California’s supporters of the sanctuary state concept demonstrated this weekend that they weren’t going to go down without a fight. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rubio warns Trump: You’re being outnegotiated by China!]( 5/22/2018 4:01:34 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments A surprisingly sharp blow by Little Marco. So much of the Trump ego rests on his perception of himself as a master negotiator. Accusing him of getting outmaneuvered at the bargaining table is a big deal. Accusing him of getting outmaneuvered at the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Trump and North Korea, Democrats and the generic ballot, Pope Francis and God’s love, and more!]( 5/22/2018 3:31:15 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Democrats’ next big idea: Guaranteed employment]( 5/22/2018 3:01:22 PM John Sexton 0 Comments According to the NY Times, Democrats planning to run for president in 2020 are considering a big new idea: Promise everyone a guaranteed job. You’ll be shocked to learn that the plan involves raising taxes an unknown amount to cover the cost [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Columnist warns NFL that a ban on kneeling would be “hollow”]( 5/22/2018 2:31:14 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The NFL has a league meeting this week, kicking off today, where they will discuss a number of items relating to the rules of the league and various business interests. One possible item on the agenda has to do with the National Anthem protests [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: We could always do the Kim summit later, you know]( 5/22/2018 2:01:00 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Just how “serious” is North Korea about denuclearization … and in which direction? Donald Trump addressed concerns over the upcoming summit with Kim Jong-un during a press avail before his meeting with South Korean president Moon [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Fun: Kevin McCarthy pretending like he’s not angling for Paul Ryan’s job]( 5/22/2018 1:31:11 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments For cripes sake. I know he has to deny this as a matter of basic politeness towards Ryan, but not only is he obviously weighing the possibility that he’ll become Speaker, it’d be irresponsible if he weren’t. If the House breaks [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Andrew McCabe knew CNN was ready to publish dossier story two days after Trump was briefed]( 5/22/2018 1:01:43 PM John Sexton 0 Comments One of the little mysteries that has remained over the past year of investigation into the Steele dossier is this: Who leaked information about a private briefing given to President-elect Trump to CNN? The briefing itself, by former FBI Director [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Great news. The IRS doesn’t know who’s been accessing your data]( 5/22/2018 12:31:50 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I’m glad all those problems at the IRS are behind us. With their various scandals in the rearview mirror, taxpayers may rest comfortably in the knowledge that their returns will be handled in a proper, confidential fashion with speedy, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] The Hill [Trump praises Tomi Lahren after she was harassed at restaurant]( AP [Amazon urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police]( CNN [Trump’s lawyers seek to narrow scope of Mueller interview]( James Comey [“How will Republicans explain this to their grandchildren?”]( CNN [Presidents can be indicted]( Matt Welch [Nine times John McCain slams conservative media in new book]( Politico [Democrats not invited to DOJ briefing on FBI informant]( Frank Newport [In U.S., estimate of LGBT population rises to 4.5%]( Gabriel Sherman [“That psychopath is going down”: Inside Trumpworld, a bizarre counter-narrative takes hold]( Michael Avenatti [It’s come to this]( Albert Breer [NFL considers 15-yard penalty for anthem kneeling]( David Frum [Impeachment is not the answer]( Scientific American [Why we need to take pet loss seriously]( NY Post [What could go wrong?]( Dennis Baron [Antonin Scalia was wrong about the meaning of “bear arms”]( David French [Jordan Peterson plays in the left’s cultural sandbox]( Elaine Kamarck [How Mitt Romney could end up running the United States]( M.B. 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